Frozen water buried in rocks on the lunar surface may have been protected from intense sunlight by an ancient magnetic field surrounding the moon, study shows. Once extracted from rocks, the water could one day be used to sustain future human settlements, experts said - providing both something to drink and ingredients for fuel.A number of spacecraft have seen evidence of ice deep inside craters at the polar regions of the moon, where temperatures can drop to -418F due to sunlight's inability to penetrate inside the dark pits.
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